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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...unlikely to have anywhere near that much time to decide what lessons to draw from Viet Nam and how to apply them. The initial impulse after the American withdrawal was to avoid any foreign involvement that might conceivably lead to a commitment of U.S. troops. Scholars differ on how seriously this so-called Viet Nam syndrome inhibited an activist U.S. foreign policy, but in any case it is fading--witness the enthusiastic approval of the Grenada invasion in late 1983 (to be sure, that was a rare case in which the U.S. was able to apply such overwhelming force that...
...Chinese-born M.I.T. scientist who decided to teach himself to read spectrograms (computer-enhanced versions of the electrical wave forms of speech) as if they were words. This was no easy task. While spectrograms made by one person repeating the same word look alike, those made by another differ considerably. Zue discovered, however, that no matter how unlike spectrograms appear, they all have certain features in common. For example, the s in stop will appear as a dark rectangular wedge, no matter who is talking. Zue eventually cataloged hundreds of these identifying features, learning to recognize syllables, words, even whole...
Thanks to the new legislation, the Two-Thirds Twist will grind to a halt in 1989. Until then, the Registrar's Office will compute students' honors according to each set of rules, awarding the higher degree where the outcomes differ. Somehow, it's hard to conceive of the new system working to any one individual's advantage--but it should work to everyone's collective advantage, eliminating the loopholes by which some undergraduates cop inflated degrees...
...election, one of only two special elections statewide, boasts a close race between three of the four progressive Democratic candidates who seem to differ more in their political experience than in their views of the issues facing the Roxbury and North Dorchester area...
Weapons that could attack the warheads differ somewhat by stage of flight, but--and this is a faintly cheering thought to Star Wars researchers--most are $ adaptable to more than one phase. The systems that could zap missiles in boost generally could also hit warheads in post-boost, mid-course and perhaps even re-entry phases. A rundown of the potential missile and warhead killers that are getting the most attention from scientists...